G2/G3 - We started the block today with Article of the Week #3: Death Row. I gave students 20 minutes in class to begin reading, annotating, and writing their responses. Those will be due on Friday. From there, students were asked to write a half-page journal associated with "Snow." After some sharing and discussion, we went over the review sheet for Chapters 8-9, went through the vocabulary for Chapters 10-11, and students began reading the assignment for the rest of the block. Assignment: Finish Chapters 10-11 and the review sheet. Be ready for a quiz over Chapters 8-11 next time. AOW Response #3 is due on Friday.
G4 - Microtheme #1 DUE. After collecting papers, I asked students to generate some inquiry-based questions for potential use on the Research-Based Analysis paper at the end of the semester. Those questions were submitted through the Google Doc posted on Moodle at the bottom of the page. After some thinking and discussion, we then moved on to some discussion questions to begin our second unit, the Critique. I distributed copies of the Homework Calendar for this unit (which also lives on Google Classroom as a live document), then we previewed the second paper, Microtheme #2. From there, groups read/discussed "The Plug-In Drug" to begin practicing some "critique" strategies and sample analysis paragraphs. At the end of the block, we discussed the Double-Entry Notebook assignment expectations (template on Moodle). Assignment: Read "Yes, Money Can Make You Happy" (p. 273+) and complete a double-entry notebook assignment for Wednesday.
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